The Faculty of Linguistics and Social Communications hosted a scientific roundtable with international participation "From Aeronautics to Space Heights: Aviation in the Context of Technological Transformations"

On April 10, 2024, the Department of History and Documentation of the Faculty of Linguistics and Social Communications hosted a scientific roundtable with international participation "From Aeronautics to Space: Aviation in the Context of Technological Transformations".

The organizing committee of the roundtable included:

• Larysa Levchenko, director of the Central State Archive of Higher Bodies of Power and Administration of Ukraine;
• Iryna Turmenko, doctor of historical sciences, professor, head of the Department of History and Documentation of the FLSC NAU;
• Natalia Melnyk - doctor of pedagogical sciences, associate professor, acting dean of the FLCS;
• Oleh Babenko, deputy director of the Central State Archives of Higher Authorities and Governments of Ukraine, chief curator of the fonds;
• Anzhelika Kokarieva, PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor, deputy dean of the FLSC for scientific and international activities;
• Oleh Zakharchuk - PhD in History, associate professor of the Department of History and Documentation at the FLSC of the NAU;
• Olha Yurchenko - PhD in History, associate professor of the Department of History and Documentation of the FLSC of the NAU.

Natalia Melnyk, Anzhelika Kokareva, and Iryna Turmenko welcomed the participants of the roundtable and emphasized the relevance of the event, which was held on the eve of the World Day of Aviation and Astronautics and the Day of Rocket and Space Industry Workers of Ukraine. The speakers emphasized the importance of international cooperation between Ukrainian and Polish researchers in the field of aviation.

The scientific roundtable was attended by renowned scholars, archivists, and museum experts from Ukraine and Poland:

• Andriy Haruk, doctor of historical sciences, professor of the Department of Humanities at the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy (Lviv);
• Larysa Levchenko - doctor of historical sciences, professor, director of the Central State Archive of Higher Authorities and Governance of Ukraine;
• Tomasz Matuszak - doctor of humanities, State Archives in Piotrków Trybunalski (Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland);
• Maciej Hubka - doctor of humanities, State Archives in Piotrków Trybunalski (Piotrków Trybunalski, Republic of Poland);
• Olha Haidai - PhD in History, associate professor, assistant archivist (State Archives in Piotrków Trybunalski; visiting researcher at the University of Warsaw (Republic of Poland);
• Valeriy Azarkov - doctor of technical sciences, professor of the Department of Aerospace Control Systems of the NAU, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology and the M.K. Yangel Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Veteran of the Space Industry of Ukraine;
• Olena Lavrynenko, curator of the funds of the Museum of History of the NAU; 
• Kateryna Kotenko - archivist of the I category of the Department of Document Information Use, Central State Scientific and Technical Archive of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Ukraine);
• Olena Yefremova, head of the Department for the Use of Document Information at the Central State Archive of Higher Authorities and Governments of Ukraine;
• Iryna Turmenko - doctor of historical sciences, professor, head of the Department of History and Documentation Studies of the FLSC NAU, and others.

In their presentations, the participants touched upon topical issues in the history of aeronautics and aviation: the problems of Ukrainian aviation terminology, stock collections and documentary exhibitions of the archives of Ukraine and Poland on the history of aviation, and the pages of the life and work of prominent Ukrainian aviators and scientists developing aviation and rocket and space technology.

The event aroused great interest among the 80 participants and listeners of the roundtable.